Renaissance?
Subtitle: perceptions of continuity and discontinuity in Europe, c.1300-c.1550
By: edited by Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté, Harry Schnitker
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9789004183346
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Renaissance and the classical tradition; title: Introduction: Veteris vestigia flammae? : the "rebirths" of antiquity / Luke Houghton; title: The Renaissance and the Middle Ages : chronologies, ideologies, geographies / Robert Black; title: Shakespeare and the "tragedy" of the Renaissance / Robin Kirkpatrick; title: "Humanitas Renata" / Robin Sowerby; title: Machiavelli's appreciation of Greek antiquity and the ideal of "Renaissance" / George Steiris; title: pt. 2. The Renaissance and the arts; title: Introduction: Seeing is believing? : the Renaissance and the arts / Alexander Lee; title: Vasari's Rinascita : history, anthropology, or art criticism? / Matteo Burioni; title: The state of the art / Rob C. Wegman; title: Brunelleschi's perspective panels : rupture and continuity in the history of the image / Johannes Grave; title: Panofsky : linear perspective and perspectives of modernity / Rhys W. Roark; title: Michelangelo's mythologies / Maria Ruvoldt; title: The Byzantine influence on the introduction of the third dimension and the formation of Renaissance art / Diotima Liantini; title: pt. 3. A wider Renaissance?; title: Introduction: A wider Renaissance? / Alexander Lee; title: Northern Renaissance? : Burgundy and Netherlandish art in fifteenth-century Europe / Hanno Wijsman; title: Forgotten paths to "another" Renaissance : Prague and Bohemia, c.1400 / Klara Benesovska; title: A new world of the mind? : Renaissance self-perception and the invention of printing / Andrew Pettegree; title: The "invention" of Durer as a Renaissance artist / Jeffrey Chipps Smith; title: Notes on the history of Renaissance scholarship in Central Europe : Bialostocki, Schlosser, and Panofsky / Ingrid Ciulisova.